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UNITED STATES PATENT Grams) OHARLES MILLER, OE AUBURN, NEW YORK,ASSIGNOR TO JOSEPH STOMPE, OF SAME PLACE.

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Si ECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No.348,033, dated August24, 1886.

Application filed March 20, 1856.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it knownthat I, CHARLES MILLER, a citizen of the United States, and aresident of Auburn, in the county of Cayuga and State of New York, haveinvented certain new and useful Improvements in Mop-Wringers; and

I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exactdescription of myinvention, which will enable others skilled in the toart to which it appertaius to make and use the same, reference being hadto the accompanying drawings, which form a part of this specification,and in which Figure 1 is a perspective view showing my [5 improvedmop-wringerin operation, and Fig. 2 is a longitudinal vertical sectionalview of the same.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in both thefigures.

My invention has relation to mop-wringers; and it consists in theimproved construction and combination of parts of such a wringer, inwhich two rollers are secured in brackets at the lower ends of twosprings, which will force the rollers together, wringing the mop whendrawn between the rollers, as hereinafter more fully described andclaimed.

In the accompanying drawings, the letter 0 A indicates a tubular handle,into which the handle B of the mop C may be inserted, and two springs, DD, bulging outward at their middles, are secured at their upper ends tothe lower end of this tubular handle, within 5 sockets E E upon thesides of the said end.

Abracket,F,is attached perpendicularly byits middle to the lower end ofone of said springs, and a like bracket, G, is similarly attached to thelower end of the other one of said 0 springs. At each end of the bracketF there projects inwardly, at right angles to said bracket,a curved arm,K, each of which arms is provided with a longitudinal slot, L. At eachend of the bracket Gthere projects inwardly, at right angles to saidbracket, a curved arm, H, and each of these arms is provided near itsfree end with a circular bearing, M. Said free ends rest against theSerial No. 195,922. (No model.)

outside of the arms K, and their bearings register with the slots L. Oneof the tw0 5o rollers, lettered J, has its trunnions I passed throughthe slots L of the armsK, and inserted in the bearings M of the arms H.The other roller is journaled by its trunnions in the slots L of thearms K.

Brackets N project from one of the springs and straddle the otherspring, and a camlever, O, is pivoted upon the doubled end of thebrackets, having its eccentric head 1? hearing against the spring insuch a manner that when the lever is tilted upward the springs will beforced toward each other.

It will now be seen that when the handle of the mop has been insertedinto the tubular handle of the wringer, and the mop hangs be- 6 5 tweenthe rollers, which are spread apart by the springs, and the cam-lever istilted, so as to force the springs together, bringing the rollers tobear against the mop, the mop may be drawn by its handle in an upwardthree tion, wringing the water from the mop between the rollers, whichare forced together by the springs.

When the mop, has been wrung, the springs may be allowed to spring apartby depress- 5 ing the cam-lever, and the mop may be withdrawn.

The rollers may be made of wood, metal, or any elastic material, or maybe made of a solid material covered by rubber or similar elastic 8omaterial, as desired.

Having thus described my invention, I claim and desire to secure byLetters Patent of the United States- In a mop-wringer, the combinationof a tubular handle, two springs secured at their upper ends to thetubular handle and having their middles bulging outward, a bracket uponthe lower end of one spring having i11- wardly-projecting arms providedwith bearc ings, a roller journaled with its trunnions in the bearings,a bracket secured at the lower end of the other spring and formed withinwardly-projecting longitudinally-slotted arms having the trunnions ofsaid roller sliding in 5 the slots, another roller journaled in saidslots, brackets projecting from one spring, and a cam-lever projectingfrom the doubled end of the brackets bearilw a ainst the outer side 1 ofthe other spring xx ith its eccentric cmn- CHARLES MILLER head, as andfor the purpose shown and set \Vitnesses:

J OSEF STOMPE,

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my own I have hereunto affixed my signature in presence of twoWitnesses.

forth.

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